Beer: Ratings & Reviews

Reviews by kdoc8:

I had this on tap at the brew pub in San Francisco, CA. It had a thick foamy head, and was highly carbonated. It looked and smelled a lot like a pilsner, golden/clear in color and with a bit of lacing. It had a yeasty smell and taste - refreshing but kind of tasteless.

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3.7/5 rDev +0.5%look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Pale yellow gold. Rising carbonation. Lemon, Hallertau, and bready aromas. Mild and delicate toast and bready flavors. Almost unintelligible hop bitterness but decent hop flavoring lending itself toward grass and a pinch of lemon rind. Mouthfeel is biting. Carbonation is too aggressive. This could do to be a touch more creamy. As a result drinkability suffers slightly. Authentic tasting yeast. Light and refreshing overall, as it should be.

Tap, Magnolia Pub and Brewery, San Fransisco- some lemony bitterness, pretty grainy and really not much else, pretty boring. I'm pretty sure this was my first US kolsch, and was pretty dissapointed, but then i found out they all taste pretty much like this.

This Kolsh, highly drinkable, was well enjoyed on a warm summer day. One could drink this beer all afternoon without getting wasted, its crisp, well-balanced flavors not fatiguing after several glasses. Magnolia properly serves this well-crafted beer in a thin-walled, straight, 10oz Stange.

On tap at the brewery, review from written notes. Listed at 4.7%.Served in a traditional cylindrical stange glass, not strange at all.

Bright gold color, drippy arcs of lace in the glass. Clean, grainy aroma, hint of grapes from the yeast. Light and crisp feel, tasted good, but more like a dry pilsner than a kolsch. Very dry and herbal hop flavor (mild), some apple notes also. Very clean and easy drinking, the small glass disappears with little to no effort. Would have had another, but the dozen or so other house beers beckoned.

Poured on tap at the Mikkeller bar in San Francisco into a large sort of half tumbler shaker glass. Very odd glass.

Deep brass gold and bronze with crystal clarity. Nice one finger head given bright and white, slightly frothy and foamy whipped a bit. Real dark for a Kolsch.

Simple light bready aromas and a hint of fruity lemon zest slightly. Fairly basic but solid, hard to determine some more powerful character or unique quality.

Palate does have a wonderful classic bready malt of white bread. Not much toasty or yeasty esters on this. Feels like a German pilsner more so with lots of bakery density which is nice. Good long and lasting lingering bready finish surprisingly, which is very impressive. Some popping carbonation a bit, but this malt body is hard to break through. There is a bit of sweetness that is a little more noticeable.

An overall very solid Kolsch but has a bit more sweetness than I would prefer on the finish.

Nice glittering golden color with regular strains of bubbles. Thin but lasting head. Smell is crisp and clean with enjoyable baking notes of yeast. Taste is crisp too. The use of pilsner malt and german hops gets clearly noticeable, and I almost feel in Germany. Subtle notes of lemon come before the measured dry hoppiness that stays a little bit on the tongue. Maybe floral notes of ginger and hints of banana and bubble gum. The apparent simplicity of the brew leaves place to an enjoyable complex experience. A German grassy hoppiness, but balanced. Very light notes of yeast. Mouthfeel is round and greatly smooth on the palate. Nice!